Chocolate Chestnut Mousse Tart
- 2 cups heavy sweet cream
- 2 teaspoons unflavored gelatin
- 3 tablespoons rum
- 4 egg yolks
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 6 ounces cooked fresh or canned chestnuts, chopped fine (see note)
- 4 ounces lightly roasted hazelnuts, crushed
- 4 ounces bittersweet chocolate in bar or block form, approximately Confectioners' sugar, for decoration
- Whip cream until stiff and set aside.
- Soften gelatin in rum, then set over warm water until liquid
- Beat egg yolks with sugar until thick and pale in color.
- Beat in gelatin-rum mixture.
- Fold whipped cream, chestnuts and hazelnuts into yolk mixture.
- Turn mousse into cooled pie shell, mounding it toward the center.
- Prepare chocolate curls slowly and carefully by drawing a swivel-bladed vegetable peeler across the brand flat surface of the chocolate, which should shave off in long curls.
- Sprinkle curls generously over top of the pie and then sprinkle with confectioners' sugar.
heavy sweet cream, unflavored gelatin, rum, egg yolks, sugar, chestnuts, hazelnuts, bittersweet chocolate
Taken from cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/5634 (may not work)